Casseopeia AKA Cassie

Well, you all know about UFOs...right?

I started this star sampler at least ten years ago as a technique builder, it was only the second top I ever started.   I pieced it block by block over a twelve month period, some blocks were easier than others but when it came to the borders I was never just happy with them.  First off the corners never matched properly so I had to take a piece out then the colours didn't match up right so the top was enclosed in a polythene bag for a couple of years while I thought about it.
I wasn't really quilting during this period just entertaining myself at times, I think those borders were taken off three times in all.  I always liked the colours and fabrics... the outer border fabric is the tie fabric as it's in every block....it's Monet's garden, it's difficult to see but there are tiny white cottages too.
I am really a self taught quilter, that's obvious if you could see the seams on the back of this top...good job it is all now enclosed out of sight, I would definitely make a better job of the piecing now but at the end of the day this will be a quilt that will get used and loved.

I finally got the top to a stage where I was happy to quilt it but recently I have been so busy that finding time to quilt my own quilts has been a little difficult... but hey ho!

So I entered the quilt in Festival of Quilts...that was the push I needed to get it quilted, it isn't perfect, which quilt is but I still love it?
It's around 96 x 80 inches, I used Hobbs Polydown over Simply Cotton wadding/batting...the poly wadding so that the white background fabric stayed white ...I seem to have a passion for quilts with white backgrounds?
White Metro thread and colours to match the fabrics in the stars with white  MagnaGlide bobbins on all of the back which is a white on white fabric, unusual for me I didn't get a photo of the back.....that will have to wait now....
All freemotion handguided with lots of ruler work....on my APQS  Millennium....

So here are one or two photos....lol....

 I wondered why I had added this pink fabric, it's only in two blocks, but in then end this turned into my favourite block....go figure....

I am really happy that now this top is a quilt!

Can you tell?